The following articles in the Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis and The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (2) are compulsory (both handbooks are available at the UNED library): 

UNIT 1:

Mey, Jacob (2001). Literary Pragmatics. In Schiffrin, D.; Tannen, D. and H. Hamilton (eds.), The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell. 787-797. (Unit 1).

Tan, Peter K. W. (2012) Literary Discourse. In: Gee, J.P. & M. Handford (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis. London & New York: Routledge. 628-641. (Unit 1)

Van Dijk, Teum (2001). Critical Discourse Analysis. In Schiffrin, D.; Tannen, D. and H. Hamilton (eds.), The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell. 352-371. (Unit 3)

UNIT 2:

Olson, David R. (2012) Narrative, Cognition, and Rationality. In: Gee, J.P. & M. Handford (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis. London & New York: Routledge. 604-615. (Unit 2)

Thornborrow, Joanna (2012) Narrative Analysis. In: Gee, J.P. & M. Handford (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis. London & New York: Routledge. 51-65. (Unit 2)

UNIT 3:

Blackledge, Adrian, (2012. Discourse and Power. In: Gee, J.P. & M. Handford (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis. London & New York: Routledge. 616-627. (Unit 3)

UNIT 4:

Schleppegrell, Mary J. (2012). Systemic Functional Linguistics. In: Gee, J.P. & M. Handford (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis. London & New York: Routledge. 21-34. (Unit 4)  

Ward, Gregory and Birner, Betty J. (2001).  Discourse and Information Structure. In Schiffrin, D.; Tannen, D. and H. Hamilton (eds.), The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell. 119-127. (Unit 4)

UNIT 5:

A web tour through Appraisal Theory (The internet link to this tour was provided in the "Contenidos" section above)

Alba-Juez, Laura & Thompson, Geoff (2014). The many faces and phases of evaluation. In:  G. Thompson and L. Alba-Juez (eds.) Evaluation in Context. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 3-26.

(A copy of this article will be provided in the virtual course)

Those students who do not have a basic knowledge of the main discourse approaches and concepts are advised to start the course by reading Chapters 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the following book (whose manuscripts, if necessary will be provided within the virtual space):

Alba-Juez, Laura (2009). Perspectives on Discourse Analysis: Theory and Practice. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.